1-7, Corporation Street is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1989. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
1-7, Corporation Street
- WRENN ID
- eastward-portal-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1989
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 1-7, Corporation Street, B2 4LP
- OS grid reference
- SP 070 868
- Coordinates
- 52.47922, -1.8979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 1-7 on Corporation Street is a commercial building dating from around 1880. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a slate mansard roof. The design showcases a free style composition that incorporates a mix of Hispanic and Elizabethan details. The building has five storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical arrangement of five windows.
A moulded cornice sits above 20th-century shop fronts, with a central doorway that has a bracketed broken-pediment above a panelled door set within a semi-circular arched architrave. The tympanum features a richly carved panel with festooned swan-necked pediments on either side. The first-floor window projects and is flanked by carved festoons beneath a balustraded parapet, while the second-floor window has columns with foliate capitals supporting a swan-necked pediment.
Both the first and second floors include rounded projecting bay windows adorned with carved details on their pediments, as well as stone-transomed windows with fluted Ionic pilasters and broad mullions. The third floor features stone-mullioned and transomed cross windows, which have bracketed swan-necked pediments flanking a central triangular pediment. Below these windows is a richly carved bracketed cornice. The dormer windows are topped with bracketed pediments, with a central dormer that has a segmental-pedimented tablet set in a broken pediment. This building is noted as a striking early example of Free Style architecture.
Local climate
1-7, Corporation Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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